Florida Panhandle & Tallahassee

[giradman]

I imagine some whole neighbourhoods were devastated. I hope there were not too many deaths.
I was online looking for webcams and all the Mexico Beach webcams were offline.

I suspect that plenty of pics and information will come out in the next few days showing the devastation along the Florida Gulf Coast and likely extending further inland - having driven a lot of that Panhandle coast line a few years ago, the structures, so close to the water, looked quite vulnerable - at the moment of this writing maybe one or several deaths - sure that more will occur but hopefully not that many? Dave

 

[giradman]

Mexico Beach Devastated by Hurricane Michael Yesterday!

Today, the sun is out in Florida and the tremendous damage is being shown - Mexico Beach, the small coastal Florida town has been destroyed; some of the high rises and houses on stilts seem to be standing albeit damaged - just a few pics below - also, the link provides a video for those interested. The storm is now in the Carolinas - in our state (NC) rain will impact on the eastern half of the state later today, where Hurricane Florence flooded the area a month ago - this storm will likely add 'insult to injury' for those affected people. In my area, several inches of rain are expected (I hope that's all!). Dave
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[suenc]

What a nightmare! We were fortunate to be in Florida between hurricanes. I hope our hotel in the Panhandle isn’t damaged.

 

[giradman]

What a nightmare! We were fortunate to be in Florida between hurricanes. I hope our hotel in the Panhandle isn’t damaged.

Well, I was curious too - the WaterColor Resort is about 90 miles west of Mexico Beach, so could certainly have been damaged, BUT just got off their website and an announcement indicates minimum damage only; of course, not sure about the surrounding areas.
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[giradman]

Panama City & Beach Devastated by Hurricane Michael

Panama City & Beach are just a half hour up the coast from Mexico Beach so was quite near the landfall of this storm - watching the Weather Station much of the day and the damage in the Panama City area w/ the sun shinning today is disheartening - some pics below (LINK) showing the destruction there. Dave

P.S. has been raining all day in our town - not much wind - BUT, the electricity just went out - have plenty of lights and a battery-powered radio, so listening to our local NPR station - also, have an oversized APC UPS attached to my cable modem & router, so still able to get on the internet (as I'm typing at the moment) - states that there is over 5 hrs of runtime.
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